Stewart Brand on Nuclear Energy [VIDEO]

Environmentalist Stewart Brand, one of the principal founders of the green movement in the United States, speaks on environmentalism and green arguments in favor of nuclear energy. Take a look and have a listen!

Stewart Brand also was a principal campaigner in convincing NASA to release the first photograph of the whole earth from space.

An issue I haven't heard addressed is in regard to incentives for oil producing countries. Russia for instance, may actually think they'd like to see the earth get a little warmer. It's cold up there. Saudi Arabia probably wouldn't notice 5 degrees higher climate.

Australia last year started charging its biggest polluters a price of A$23 a metric ton for their carbon emissions to discourage the use of fossil fuels and fight climate change. Natural gas prices in Australia may triple by 2030, BNEF said.

“The low and falling costs of renewable energy and high and rising costs of coal- and gas-fired plants suggest that much of Australia’s new generating capacity is likely to be renewable,” Sydney-based Bloomberg New Energy Finance analyst Kobad Bhavnagri wrote in the report.

1) The reason that Wind appears cheaper is because of the Tax imposed on Coal and Natural Gas.

2) I would wager that the price assumed for Wind in this "report" or "Study" does not include the Natural Gas used to balance the fluctuation of wind energy, or when the wind blows too hard or too softly.

It is impossible to trust on face value anything said by Rah Rah Boosters of Renewables.